Yeah, I never figured out how to navigate around the UI with the keyboard on OSX as well as I did on Windows... I'll be adding faster menu access as well!
Well, because you can't. Mac OS in its essence has traditionally been developed for a Mouse/Keyboard combination - Keyboard only is not regarded as the "Mac way". I'd say that this is actually a pretty good match for Laptops, since the touchpad is very close - as long as the touchpad is good you can work pretty efficiently with this combination.
However, on Desktops I've always felt limited by OSX compared to Windows and I think this is because your app is missing ;).
Let's just hope Apple will never shut the doors for Apps like yours. Given their current direction it's not unthinkable unfortunately.
There are ways to do it, like focusing the menu bar and what not, but I never remember shortcuts for that, which is one of the reasons I wrote Shortcat. Shortcuts themselves are another thing to have to remember, and I have a terrible memory. Until a shortcut becomes muscle memory, I find them annoying.
I don't think Apple will shut the door for Shortcat unless they're willing to remove the Accessibility API completely. That said, the Mac App Store doesn't allow apps that use the Accessibility API which is rather annoying...
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Yeah, I never figured out how to navigate around the UI with the keyboard on OSX as well as I did on Windows... I'll be adding faster menu access as well!
Well, because you can't. Mac OS in its essence has traditionally been developed for a Mouse/Keyboard combination - Keyboard only is not regarded as the "Mac way". I'd say that this is actually a pretty good match for Laptops, since the touchpad is very close - as long as the touchpad is good you can work pretty efficiently with this combination. However, on Desktops I've always felt limited by OSX compared to Windows and I think this is because your app is missing ;).
Let's just hope Apple will never shut the doors for Apps like yours. Given their current direction it's not unthinkable unfortunately.
There are ways to do it, like focusing the menu bar and what not, but I never remember shortcuts for that, which is one of the reasons I wrote Shortcat. Shortcuts themselves are another thing to have to remember, and I have a terrible memory. Until a shortcut becomes muscle memory, I find them annoying.
I don't think Apple will shut the door for Shortcat unless they're willing to remove the Accessibility API completely. That said, the Mac App Store doesn't allow apps that use the Accessibility API which is rather annoying...